Understanding cities with machine eyes: A review of deep computer vision in urban analytics

MR Ibrahim, J Haworth, T Cheng - Cities, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Modelling urban systems has interested planners and modellers for decades. Different
models have been achieved relying on mathematics, cellular automation, complexity, and …

The low-entropy city: A thermodynamic approach to reconnect urban systems with nature

R Pelorosso, F Gobattoni, A Leone - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Starting from the literature regarding the thermodynamics of open systems, the circular
economy of Nature and complex socio-ecological systems, we propose a new boundary …

The beginning and the end

C Vidal - Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2014‏ - Springer
THE BEGINNING AND THE END Page 1 123 Clément Vidal THE BEGINNING AND THE END
THEFRONTIERSCOLLECTIO N The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective Page 2 THE …

Contribution of bike-sharing to urban resource conservation: The case of free-floating bike-sharing

S Sun, M Ertz - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021‏ - Elsevier
It has become increasingly clear that a promising way to address waste-related issues
resides in waste prevention by resource conversation. Research has therefore started to …

Modern cities modelled as “super‐cells” rather than multicellular organisms: Implications for industry, goods and services

J Chang, Y Ge, Z Wu, Y Du, K Pan, G Yang, Y Ren… - …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The structure and “metabolism”(movement and conversion of goods and energy) of urban
areas has caused cities to be identified as “super‐organisms”, placed between ecosystems …

URBAN-i: From urban scenes to map** slums, transport modes, and pedestrians in cities using deep learning and computer vision

MR Ibrahim, J Haworth… - Environment and Planning …, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, deep learning and computer vision have been applied to solve complex
problems across many domains. In urban studies, these technologies have been …

predictSLUMS: A new model for identifying and predicting informal settlements and slums in cities from street intersections using machine learning

MR Ibrahim, H Titheridge, T Cheng… - … , Environment and Urban …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Identifying current and future informal regions within cities remains a crucial issue for
policymakers and governments in develo** countries. The delineation process of …

Scaling and allometry in the building geometries of Greater London

M Batty, R Carvalho, A Hudson-Smith, R Milton… - The European Physical …, 2008‏ - Springer
Many aggregate distributions of urban activities such as city sizes reveal scaling but hardly
any work exists on the properties of spatial distributions within individual cities …

Scaling behavior of public procurement activity

A Curado, B Damásio, S Encarnação, C Candia… - Plos one, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Public procurement refers to the purchase by public sector entities—such as government
departments or local authorities—of Services, Goods, or Works. It accounts for a significant …

The angiogenic growth of cities

I Capel-Timms, D Levinson… - Journal of the …, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Describing the space–time evolution of urban population is a fundamental challenge in the
science of cities, yet a complete theoretical treatment of the underlying dynamics is still …